Bottlenose Dolphin
By Lars
What do they look like?
The Bottlenose dolphin is almost 12 feet long.
They have blue-gray skin
on the top of their body.
Dolphins have an off-white belly.
Dolphins
have a blowhole on top of their head.
Dolphins breathe air...
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Bottlenose Dolphin
By Lars
What do they look like?
The Bottlenose dolphin is almost 12 feet long.
They have blue-gray skin
on the top of their body.
Dolphins have an off-white belly.
Dolphins
have a blowhole on top of their head.
Dolphins breathe air through this
blowhole.
Dolphins have a toothed beak with sharp teeth.
Where they live? What do they eat?
Dolphins live in oceans all over the world.
Dolphins are hunters who find
their food at the surface of the water.
Dolphins can swim down to more
than 1,000 feet, and can jump up to 20 feet out of the water.
They eat
fish and squid and shrimp and shell fish and small fish.
A grownup
dolphin has to eat 15 to 30 pounds of food each day.
What kind of family life do they have?
Dolphins live in small groups of up to 12 whales.
These groups of
Dolphins are called pods.
Females have one baby at time when they are
16 years old.
The baby stays with the mother until they are 6 years old.
They can live to be about 25 years old.
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